I should clarify that I don't think it's because it's because Japan is amazingly progressive about gender. (After all, this is the game where he gets groped by :biden-troll: who exclaims "You're... a man?!)
It's just that Japanese character designers can go "I think the dudes can and should be pretty too"
Yeah, makes sense.
I get conscious about that since I see Westerners throwing stones from glass houses when they try to single out le barbaric Asiatics for being uniquely "backwards" (not just Chyna). Not to say Japanese culture doesn't have its own particular hang-ups.